James King to Banks, October 1780, quoted in
David Mackay, "A Presiding Genius of Exploration: Banks, Cook, and Empire, 1767-1805," in
Robin Fisher and Hugh Johnston, eds., Captain James Cook and His Times ( Seattle, 1979), 29.

9.

Jefferson to John Manners, Monticello, 22 February 1814, in JP-DLC.

10.

This approach is best exemplified in the work of John L. Allen. See especially
his "Lands of Myth, Waters of Wonder: The Place of Imagination in the History of
Geographical Exploration," in
David Lowenthal and
Martyn J. Bowden, eds., Geographies of the Mind: Essays in Historical Geography in Honor of John Kirtland Wright ( New
York, 1976), 41-61.

John L. Allen, Passage through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the
American Northwest ( Urbana, 1975), 23.

13.

Jonathan Carver, Travels through the Interior Parts of North America ( London, 1781), 118. See also John Parker, ed., The Journals of Jonathan Carver and Related Documents, 1766-1770 ( St. Paul, 1976).

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